As of today people thinking what is the difference between blog and website or what is more better a static website or wordpress blog? I know using the word versus is a strong word just for differentiating blog and a website but since I’m a pro-blogger in a literal meaning, I will stick to the word. When I start blogging it’s not my concern to know the difference between a blog and a website, and days passed by as I learned more, yet not enough, as I told to others what I’m doing 24/7, I’m confused how to introduce them the world of blogging. They would ask, is that a website? And what is a blog?

To make it clear I will start the common thing about a blog and a website. A blog and a website is both use to publish over the net. They are both having URL, HTML code, CSS, JavaScript and server-side script use HTTP protocol. Then the last thing, of course is their both managed by people.

The basic difference between blog and a website is A blog is Dynamic and A website is Static. When you say dynamic, it means that a blog is constantly changing. You make everyday post, updates and keep the contents fresh. While a website is static because you do not update it in a regular basis, sometimes it is only done periodically or when the product you sell or promote in your website changed.

The second difference is about who the blog and website’s owner and target audience. A blog is usually owned by only one individual, and a website is owned by groups of people or company but many bloggers and web developers contradict these differences now since computer aged is evolving and makes it easy for a person to own a website and more companies using a blog format for their website.

The third difference is how it is written. A blog is written in informal way as blog previous history defines it as an online diary. It usually talks about opinions of the author and make readers participate by posting comments while a website has a formal approach. The articles are usually about what the company’s into and the products they sell. The articles here represented in well constructed statements and come from well studied pieces. You cannot voice out what you want to share. It makes readers stuck in what they’ve been reading. What you see is what it says.

The fourth difference is the benefits of owners behind website and a blog. A blog is flexible, casual, publisher-friendly, SEO friendly, and user-friendly while a website is rigid. You will get a hard time of sharing information and not enough traffic since it doesn’t change more often, it has less chance to get indexed by search engines.